An Apple iPhone App for ski touring, snowshoeing and Free Rider there now by Ortovox. The basis of the Ortovox ski App provides a zoomable, topographic map at scale outdoor 1:25.000 . The card is available online and is shown for the Alps covered with snow in the highest zoom levels, it includes in addition to the official road network even all the lifts and slopes and slope indicator. All parts of the slope angle of 30 ° are marked with a red cross-hatching. The cards can be detached from the Tour database anywhere in the German, Austrian and Tyrolean Alps for determining the position navigation and route are used.
The heart of the Ortovox ski App consists of large, ever-growing tour dates thanks . You can ski and snowboard tours and freeride descent by different criteria, select:
- Alphabetical Listing: All tours are listed in alphabetical order.
- list by distance: The Tour is list after the standoff from the site sorted
- filtering Sports: are being shown all tours of the various categories (ski tours, snowshoe tours, Freeride Downhill)
- Search by location: A full-text search within the list view allows a site-specific filtering of the tours
to tour descriptions you can find out everything worth knowing facts, you can view images, the height profile and the card. As soon as you start off a tour, you see your position signal in the topographic map and follow the road ahead.
already at home you can continue your own tours plan. In www.ortovox.com you move your mouse the distances from the 1:25,000 maps, set waypoints, added descriptions and images where appropriate. Once you save and publish the tour, they will appear in the Ortovox ski App on your iPhone ( community registration required).
order to provide maximum safety on the road, you'll all key data from the avalanche report retrieve, adjust and use on-site risk assessment. By adjusting the avalanche alert level, the slope using the slope inclinometer and slope exposure, which can be determined by compass will get, you have a safety recommendation, based on data from the DAV Snowcard . The decision whether or not you befährst the slope, you have to take but yourself!
The tools altimeter, compass and inclinometer can be used separately on tour and have at all times the maximum level of information. Who wants
to acquire all the knowledge about the subject of avalanche, it may at any time offline to do with the extensive Avalanche Glossary of Ortovox. Here you get all the info from basic knowledge on risk management to the rescue.
An important note:
on the iPod Touch is the functionality due to the lack of GPS receiver limited. This means that the position determination can be made. In the case of an existing wireless connection, a rough position determination is possible, but is about the location of hotspots and never reached the accuracy of a GPS receiver. For outdoor purposes, this type of positioning is not sufficient.
recommended 3G reception. Note: In foreign countries, lead to high roaming costs.
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